About Cheesie Mack

Hi!

Everyone calls me Cheesie, but my real name is Ronald A. Mack. The A is for Apton, which is a weird middle name. It’s my mother’s maiden name. I think most kids HATE their middle names. I actually don’t. R. Apton Mack is actually kind of cool sounding…but I like Cheesie best.

Here’s some stuff about me:

I have brown hair, brown eyes, and three freckles on my nose. I also have a whitish scar on my thumb where a fishhook stabbed me when I was on a lake with my dad. I was eight and fooling around. Don’t ask.

My birthday is August 16. I’m now 11, which is, IMO, a very cool age to be.

My ears stick out. But you can probably see that in my picture above. It used to bother me, but now that I’ve written about my ears in my book, a zagillion (that’s a gazillion times bigger than a gazillion) people know, so I say…so what? And this is the last time I’m going to mention them on my website!

I have three grandparents (plus one who died a long time ago), two aunts, two uncles, and two first cousins. I also have the meanest older sister in Massachusetts. Maybe the United States. Maybe the world! Those tiny boxes and circles to the right are my family tree (which I made as a school assignment in fourth grade). Click on it to see it bigger and learn more about everyone in my family.

I am a very fast runner. One of the fastest in my class, but I haven’t actually raced every kid. I’m on the sixth grade cross country team.

I like sports. Especially baseball and soccer. And I’m a good swimmer.

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Yes! Lots of times, but usually because she has done something mean to me first. (But not always.)
Yes! She’s in every one of my books (she’s my sister and I live with her. DUH!)
Yes! Sure. In almost every book. When you read Book #1, there’s the Mouse Plot! (In fact, I’ll probably get in trouble for writing this reply, because exactly right now I’m in my technology/computers class and I’m supposed to be doing homework instead of working on my website!)

Hi Cheesie Mack! I love your book and i have it right now! (well the second book cool in a duel.) At my local library i found the second book but can not find the first book. ( i found cool in a duel at san pedro library.)Is it worth buying? its kinda weird to read the 2nd book first and the 1st book second. But anyway i love your book Cheesie Mack!are you making a third? Sorry for all the questions! Oh, one last question what is a imo (im only 9 going on 10 so.) Please write back soon!

The library does have book #1. Just ask the librarian to request it for you.
Yes, I have written a third book. It’s called Cheesie Mack Is Running Like Crazy! You can read about it here:http://cheesiemack.com/cool-duel/fourth-book/

That’s weird.
I checked with the Culver City Library, and you’re right. They do not have Cheesie Mack Is Cool in a Duel. but if you go to the library and suggest they get it, maybe they’ll order it. Tell them the book was picked as one of the best books of 2012 by the school librarians associations of both New Hampshire and South Carolina…and was named as the best humor book of 2012 (ages 9-12) by the Bank Street College of Education. Maybe that will convince them.

Of course I’m prejudiced, but I think Cool in a Duel is just as good as Not a Genius or Anything. So, yeah…it’s worth buying. But you could also just ask your local librarian to get it for their collection. Sometimes they respond to requests like that. And to convince her, you could suggest she look at the reviews of the second book.http://cheesiemack.com/cool-duel/#reviews

like nobody in my school reads your books Number one
Too Hard/Number two can’t understand the books and
Number three we never get reading time also you should
read 9(American Chillers) there’s a new one called
Manaic Martians Maroon the state you live but it’s not
real though soooooooooo if it WAS real that would be terrible wouldn’t it Cheesie

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